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Listen up. I want this hospital to be the premiere lung cancer treatment center in the world! Now let me use your funny hat for an ashtray.

This will be the second time in a week that I have hit on a smoking theme, but when you’re hot, you’re…OK, enough with the metaphors. In short, His Royal Kimness the Third recently toured Taesongsan General Hospital, which is being built by the People’s Army in Pyongyang. At several times during the tour he was pictured lighting up and smoking away.

I suppose if I was his political spin doctor I could release the following statement:

“So great are the new facilities being built by the Great Kim and so wondrous is the technology being installed, that you can continue to enjoy your smoking habit resting safely assured that modern North Korean medical magic will cure your cancer.”

At any rate, being a dictator has its perks; it’s good to be Kim, and he can smoke wherever he pleases. The North Korean propaganda machine seems to think so, since they regularly release photos of the Great One puffing away.

Look at all those cool lights. I think I’ll have a smoke.

I think this is the part where she realizes there is no food to feed the family for the winter.

We had initially planned to name one of our new products “daebak,” a Korean word for jackpot. But in order to capitalize on the global popularity of Gangnam Style we decided to name the cigarette after the song,” CT&G CEO Kang Chul-joong told Yonhap News. “We really hope our Gangnam cigarettes will be as successful as Psy’s song and let more foreigners know about Korea.’

And get cancer.

There is also an interesting side story about the group, a collection of thirty-eight Korean convenience store owners, launching a tobacco company because of what they claim is unfair pricing, marginalization of small business and difficulties importing Korean brand cigarettes in to Canada due to protectionist policies.

Must feel just like home over there.

Another thing: Can’t the Korea Times just say PSY is a “35-year-old rapper” and not “a 35-year-old chubby rapper?” Geez.